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Author: Bakchos

This author has written 999 articles
International Law, State Violence and Australia’s Obligation to Its Citizens
Human Rights / Shared humanity

International Law, State Violence and Australia’s Obligation to Its Citizens

Australia must formalise a response to the detention and mistreatment of its citizens by Israeli authorities participating the Global Freedom Flotilla.

4 Comments
May 23, 2026
Before the Body, the Book: Palestinian Erasure and Civilisational Destruction
Culture / Genocide / Human Rights

Before the Body, the Book: Palestinian Erasure and Civilisational Destruction

Destruction of Palestinian artefacts and books, including the places of learning, are core features of genocide.

9 Comments
May 22, 2026
The Weight We Will Not Name: Domestic Violence, Masculine Culture and the Australian Crisis
Culture / Human Rights / Respect

The Weight We Will Not Name: Domestic Violence, Masculine Culture and the Australian Crisis

Domestic violence in Australia is a cultural scourge, one for which men must take responsibility to lead its eradication.

9 Comments
May 21, 2026
Still Standing: A Note to Readers of Blak and Black
ACT Government / Australian Aborigines / Australian Federal Police / Discrimination/Racism / Former Commissioner / Justice / Racism

Still Standing: A Note to Readers of Blak and Black

Some of you have been reading this blog since its earliest days. You know the history. You know what was attempted. This is a brief note to tell you that…

10 Comments
May 20, 2026
From the Delian League to the Indo-Pacific: The AUKUS Dilemma
Commonwealth Government / Government / Uncategorized

From the Delian League to the Indo-Pacific: The AUKUS Dilemma

The durability of an international alliances is tested by hegemonic imbalance, a risk in the AUKUS Alliance.

5 Comments
May 19, 2026
The Fascination with France, the French and the French Way Of Life
Accountability / Culture / Human Rights

The Fascination with France, the French and the French Way Of Life

French insists that the good life is possible, refusing the settle for second rate and pursuing all aspect of life and culture with a seriousness unique to its people.

9 Comments
May 18, 2026
I Am A Human Being
Australian Aborigines / First Nations/Indigenous

I Am A Human Being

I am Wiradjuri – and I am a human being.

9 Comments
May 17, 2026
We Were All Made In The Image: On othering, humanism and the Enlightenment legacy
Australian Aborigines / Australian Federal Police / Discrimination/Racism / First Nations/Indigenous / Human Rights / Racism / Refugees / Shared humanity

We Were All Made In The Image: On othering, humanism and the Enlightenment legacy

Far from being a footnote in history, the Enlightenment remains a challenge to the racism and exclusion plaguing Australia and the world.

8 Comments
May 16, 2026
This Old Commission, He Played One: A Nursery Rhyme in Verses for an Inquiry That Keeps Rolling Home
Discrimination/Racism

This Old Commission, He Played One: A Nursery Rhyme in Verses for an Inquiry That Keeps Rolling Home

Let us begin where we must. On 14 December 2025, fifteen people were murdered at Bondi Beach during a Hanukkah celebration. The attack was ISIS-inspired, carried out by gunmen whose…

7 Comments
May 15, 2026
Superfluous People: Anticipation Without Consummation – A History
Australian Aborigines / Discrimination/Racism / First Nations/Indigenous / Racism

Superfluous People: Anticipation Without Consummation – A History

Regardless of recommendations, time and again, the rights of Indigenous people in Australia are subordinated to those of others, The Gap never closing.

14 Comments
May 14, 2026
Blood and Songline
Australian Aborigines / First Nations/Indigenous / Genocide

Blood and Songline

The dead want to be counted. Write the count down.

15 Comments
May 13, 2026
One Nation, the Farrer By-Election and the Sickness of Western Democracy
Commonwealth Government / Democracy / Government / Refugee Policy / Respect

One Nation, the Farrer By-Election and the Sickness of Western Democracy

Farrer has become the canary in the electoral mine, highlighting that voters in regional areas have had enough of being ignored.

7 Comments
May 12, 2026
The Land of the Fair Go (A Lament)
Commonwealth Government / Government

The Land of the Fair Go (A Lament)

That is the wound that does not close — to love a place that is choosing, deliberately, with its eyes open, to be less than it was, less than it could be ...

11 Comments
May 11, 2026
The Unbreakable Spirit: Bobby Sands, Resistance and Colonial Injustice
Human Rights / Justice / Rule of Law / Shared humanity

The Unbreakable Spirit: Bobby Sands, Resistance and Colonial Injustice

The desire for freedom is common to all people, a matter that will drive resistance against an oppressor.

7 Comments
May 9, 2026
Sir David Attenborough: A Century of Wonder
Environment

Sir David Attenborough: A Century of Wonder

Humanity is blessed by the longevity of Sir David Attenborough, who continues to educate and advocate for the planet to the benefit of us all.

8 Comments
May 8, 2026
The Candlestick Phone
Australian Aborigines / First Nations/Indigenous / Human Rights / Shared humanity

The Candlestick Phone

The day they came to tell me, I was at my desk ...

42 Comments
May 7, 2026
The Red-Haired Fishmonger and the Billionaire From the West: A Fable
Discrimination/Racism / Racism / Uncategorized

The Red-Haired Fishmonger and the Billionaire From the West: A Fable

Ambition combined with greed and envy makes for a dangerous combination.

11 Comments
May 6, 2026
The Club in Eternity: A Dialogue in Moves
Human Rights / Shared humanity

The Club in Eternity: A Dialogue in Moves

Chess and coffee in eternity. The Universal Consciousness discusses the futures of humanity with Dr Adnan Al-Bursh.

19 Comments
May 5, 2026
The Dream Dreaming Us
Human Rights / Shared humanity

The Dream Dreaming Us

Realisation of the full breadth of the what this land is and what it offers requires that we accept both the bright of the Dream and that which lies in the shadows.

8 Comments
May 4, 2026
The Dance of Bliss and the Silence of West Papua
Asia-Pacific / Indonesia / Mining / West Papua

The Dance of Bliss and the Silence of West Papua

On cosmic harmony, extraction, and the seventy-three dead.

11 Comments
May 3, 2026
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    • West Papua (32)
  • Corruption (449)
    • Accountability (232)
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    • Julian Moti (14)
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  • Refugees (42)
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Publications

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  • RAMSI - the scion of the juggernaut of greed

    Solomon Star
    13 October 2011
  • AFP accused of fabricating evidence, yet again

    Solomon Star (Print only)
    4 October 2011
  • Moti affair

    Solomon Star
    14 September 2011
  • Moti affair

    Fiji Sun
    12 September 2011
  • Moti appeal exposes mixed loyalties and judicial corruption

    Solomon Star
    22 July 2011
  • Moti end game

    FijiSun
    22 July 2011
  • Letters to the editor: Article by Bakchos

    Solomon Star
    20 July 2011
  • Co-operate or else! AFP thuggery for a white Australia

    Solomon Star
    24 June 2011
  • The strange case of Bill Johnson, a study in neo-colonial hypocrisy

    Solomon Star
    17 June 2011
  • Neo-colonialism in the Torres Strait

    Solomon Star
    14 June 2011
  • Moti and other affairs

    Solomon Star
    9 June 2011
  • Comment: Excellent Read

    Fiji Sun
    7 June 2011

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Recent Posts

  • Welcome to Country: Ancestral Protocol to Civic CeremonyOctober 5, 2026
  • Presumed Guilty at Fourteen: The Case Against 22COctober 4, 2026
  • On Ethics: The Commons We Are Made OfOctober 3, 2026
  • Marina and ACT Treasury: Documents from 2002 to 2005October 2, 2026
  • Tu Pham and the Question She Could Not AnswerOctober 1, 2026
  • Tu Pham’s Prestidigitation, Self-Interest and RacismSeptember 30, 2026
  • Police Powers, Procedures and the Case for TransparencySeptember 29, 2026
  • Australian Federal Police: Sixteen Years of the Same QuestionSeptember 28, 2026
  • Alternative Facts: The Fabric and the FictionSeptember 27, 2026
  • One Nation, 1998 And NowSeptember 26, 2026

Recent Comments

  1. Jen on Welcome to Country: Ancestral Protocol to Civic Ceremony

    Welcome to Country is a ceremony as old as the land itself.

  2. Bob Coe on Welcome to Country: Ancestral Protocol to Civic Ceremony

    That’s what I understand the history of Welcome To Country to be.

  3. Kelly Conrad on Presumed Guilty at Fourteen: The Case Against 22C

    Indigenous people are always the losers in law and order auctions.

  4. Kelly Conrad on Baiame – The Creator God and Sky Father

    A very informative post, thank you ?

  5. Kelly Conrad on Welcome to Country: Ancestral Protocol to Civic Ceremony

    Thank you for the post Bakchos, you’ve spelled out the history of Welcome To Country well.

  6. Polina on Welcome to Country: Ancestral Protocol to Civic Ceremony

    The older foundations are real and recorded across regions: William Thomas’s account of the Kulin tanderrum, Howitt on messengers whose…

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